In Argentina’s rapidly growing pistachio heartland, rows of trees bearing the ripening yellow fruit dot the dry landscape, a sign of how this agricultural region is striving to capitalize on its favorable climate to cash in on worldwide demand for the nut, which has been driven by the popularity of pistachio-filled Dubai chocolate.
The country’s pistachio acreage has quintupled in the last five years to about 25,000 acres, according to
